Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of s...cience has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" ...is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds--for who can trust to tomorrow?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All ye poets of the age, All ye witlings of the stage,... Learn your jingles to reform, Crop your numbers to conform. Let your little verses flow Gently, sweetly, row by row; Let the verse the subject fit, Little subject, little wit. Namby-Pamby is your guide, Albion's joy, Hibernia's pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spirit of her I love, Whispering to me,... Stories of sweet visions, as I rove, Here stop, and crop with me Sweet flowers that in the still hour grew,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he expressed it, ...it lost all value, and enjoyed but a commonplace status. My friend blamed this devaluation on the language. "I hate English," he said. So he studied another language. He mastered it so perfectly that there was no room left in his brain for a brilliant idea. Now he has a grudge against words. He refuses to use them. He prefers to shrug or grunt. A new crop of ideas is growing. They show promise of future refinement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Droll thing life is--that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some kn...owledge of yourself--that comes too late--a crop of unextinguishable regrets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A stag of warrant, a stag, a stag, A runnable stag, a kingly crop,... Brow, bay and tray and three on top, A stag, a runnable stag.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--But he, grim grinning King, Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surprise,... Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »